Trade Policy and the Exchange Rate Regime

Warner Corden

Chapter 2 in Trade, Development and Political Economy, 2001, pp 27-39 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract The Mexican, Asian and Brazilian crises from 1994 to 1998 have led to a great debate about the choice of exchange-rate regimes for developing countries. In particular, ‘fixed-but-adjustable’ regimes have been shown to be incompatible with high capital mobility. This is not a new conclusion — and indeed is the principal explanation for the breakdown of the Bretton Woods system — but it is one that has been dramatically brought home by these more recent emerging market crises. At the same time, when the exchange rates have been reluctantly allowed to float as a result of crises, there has been excessive instability, as reflected in short-term overshooting of depreciations in the market. Again, the recognition of exchange-rate instability under floating rates is an old theme, stimulated especially by the extreme behaviour of the dollar and the yen during the 1980s and 1990s.

Keywords: Exchange Rate; Real Exchange Rate; Trade Policy; Trade Liberalization; Capital Inflow (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2001
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230523685_2

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